September 30, 2018
You Gotta Be Positive! 0
What is positive affirmation? It is a conscious effort to feed your psyche positive, uplifting, or inspiring messages, which will lead to having a positive, uplifting or inspiring life. Sounds good doesn’t, it? It’s simple to practice, and the benefits are lasting. After all, there are few things stronger or more important than the human psyche.
Your psyche determines how much you enjoy your life, how good you feel, how pleasant you are to other people, your goal-setting abilities, your attitude, and pretty much everything about your temperament, your moods and your behaviour. Your psyche is who you are. And wouldn’t you like that ‘who’ to be a better person?
Here are some great positive affirmations you can use in your everyday life:
I am happy with my life!
I am grateful for my family and friends!
I am grateful to have people who love and care about me!
I accept myself the way I am!
I accept other people the way they are!
No matter what is going on, it’s only temporary!
I can handle anything that life throws at me!
I am always striving to do better!
I will learn from my mistakes!
Life is a gift, and I will enjoy it!
These are just a few examples, but feel free to come up with your own and change them depending on your situation. Start feeling better about yourself, your life and your circumstances today!
How positive do you feel about your job and your work?
Are you currently on a search to find a new job? If you are, you may be preparing yourself for upcoming job interviews. Although you should focus a good percentage of your time on mastering the interview at hand, you may also want to examine your actions and what they should be after the meeting has ended.
September 30, 2018
How to Get Referrals from Warm Contacts 0
by Wordscapes® • Job Search Tips • Tags: getting referrals from warm contacts
However, there are times that your warm contact, particularly those who don’t know you well, may not readily provide you with the information. Some of your warm contacts may feel reluctant about vouching for you to their other contacts.
Because of this, you may find it difficult to use your network. To network and get referrals can be an easy task for you, here are a few tips.
* Nurture your warm contacts.
Before you even need your warm contacts or before you also ask for help, keep in touch with your warm contacts. You may send notes or greetings from time to time, call to “catch up” on them, invite them to lunch, be interested or help in their business or do anything to cultivate your connection with them.
In this way, by the time you need help, they can remember you and can more readily give information about their other contacts that will be able to help you.
* Be polite.
Since you might not have close personal relationships with some of your valuable warm contacts, it is inappropriate to give them a call and ask them for information about your field of interest.
Sometimes, sending a note in advance, or asking to meet them for lunch is a better way to ask for their help.
* Listen to them.
Most of the time, even if your warm contact knows little in the field where you are trying to find a job, they might offer you advice. Be polite and interested in what they are saying. Who knows, the information that they are giving may be valuable to you in the future.
There are times that your warm contacts may be telling you tips on what manner will work best when you talk to the persons that referred you. Your warm contacts may also imply what qualities and qualifications the person is required.
* Ask for at least two referrals.
Before you ask for referrals, make sure that your warm contact had said everything that he or she could say about your field of interest.
Even if they know little about that field, it is impolite if you cut them short while they are speaking to ask if they know somebody who will be able to help you.
Thoughtfully ask them why they couldn’t refer you to at least one of their contacts, They may give you answers that may include comments or suggestions. They may also indicate a lack of confidence in your work strategy. If this is so, you may have to make follow-ups with them to prove that you are indeed credible and match their requirements.
However, there are also times when they can’t refer you to their contacts because they don’t know anybody who might have the information or might be interested in the product.
In this case, ask them to keep their eyes open for opportunities that might interest you. You can also leave with them copies of your resume.
* Ask for only two referrals.
Two referrals are enough from each warm contact so to have another option in case the first one didn’t work out. Asking for more than two references could be impolite as it can take much time from your warm contact. But could also make your warm contact feel that you are relying mostly on them for your job search. So, unless they volunteer the information, don’t ask for more than two referrals.
* Nurture your warm contacts.
When your warm contacts give you referrals, there are times that they also call these people personally to provide more information about you. On the other hand, when you contact your referred people, your referrals may call your warm contacts to verify the information or to ask for more information about you.
Either way, you have to contact your referrals soon enough that these people can still remember their conversation with your warm contact or your warm contact can never forget that you have talked.
At times, after your warm contacts call your referrals, they anticipate your call and even prepare questionnaires and exams for you to take. Do not waste this opportunity by delaying follow-up on references.
Keeping these tips in mind will be able to help you in asking for good referrals from your warm contacts.